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To: Slagle who wrote (62053)	4/15/2005 10:49:34 PM
From: Raymond Duray	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 74559

Slagle, I've made something of a study of terrorism over the decades. Back in the days of the Molly McGuires, the Haymarket Riot, the bombing of the J.P. Morgan Bank (1880-1920) there were essentially no bombings targeted at random populations. The first time I'm aware of seemingly random attacks occurring against civilian populations was the era of the founding of Israel and the Lavon Affair, the King David Hotel bombing, the attacks on Jewish citizens of Baghdad, etc. Thus, I've come to associate the vicious attacks on civilians with the Zionist movement. In Afghanistan in the 1980s, the mujahideen and Russians both engaged in the random terrorization of the population, resulting in huge numbers of refugees. This is certainly another instance, like those you present as examples from the Philippines, where Muslims have been responsible for terrorizing civilian populations. What I have to wonder today is just how involved states are in perpetrating acts of terror on their own populations as a means of control. In this regard, I found "The Power of Nightmares", presented last fall and again in the spring on BBC2 to be a very observant and chilling study of the dual rise of al Qaeda and the neo-con phenomenon in the U.S. This is worth watching if you have the time: commondreams.org [Links to Web based media are embedded in the bottom of the article.]